A total of 23 scientists from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have made the list of the global top 100,000 scientists, according to a statement released on the official WeChat account of the center on Thursday.
Vaccine producers and research institutes in China, including the country’s two leading manufacturers Sinopharm and Sinovac, as well as researchers at the University of Hong Kong, said they are making major progress in studying the Omicron variant, merely half a month after the WHO defined the new mutant as “a variant of concern.”
Govt vows tougher implementation of Biosecurity Law By CAO YIN | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-04-15 11:00 Share CLOSE A researcher works in a lab at the biomedicine innovation and research center in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Nov 2. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Chinese authorities pledged to take measures to better implement the Biosecurity Law, which takes effect on Wednesday, the National Security Day.
The law, which will further protect the state security, prevent biological risks and promote relevant technological development, was approved by the Standing Committee of National People s Congress, China s top legislature, in October.
The law counts biosecurity as an important element of China s national security effort and includes detailed regulations on the prevention and control of biosecurity risks. It mandates the establishment of 11 basic systems, including those for providing early
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The sample had been collected from a pneumonia patient in Wuhan, Hubei province.
“It’s similar to when you cannot see the enemy during a war if you cannot get a clear picture of a virus when fighting an infectious disease, ” said Wu, chief biosafety expert at the China CDC.
In the initial days of the Covid-19 outbreak, when the disease was referred to as “pneumonia caused by unknown causes”, Wu and other virologists at the China CDC’s National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention had never been busier. The virologists worked around the clock to analyse the sample using the latest technology.